Base Metals Top Stories

Copper price boost as Chinese imports rebound

November cargoes up 31% to 380,000 tonnes in November compared to previous month.

Frik Els | December 7, 2016 | 9:43 pm

Nevsun off to the races after eye-popping Serbia assays

Drilling results from Vancouver-based company's super high-grade Timok copper-gold project…

Frik Els | December 7, 2016 | 5:39 pm

Win for Barrick’s giant South America gold project

Top gold producer's plans to revive giant Pascua Lama gold-silver-copper…

Frik Els | December 7, 2016 | 3:38 pm

Capital allocation: Canadian miners’ top priority for 2017

With fluctuating commodity prices, the top priorities for Canadian miners…

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 7, 2016 | 11:03 am

Rio Tinto says halt of copper shipments from Oyu Tolgoi ‘a bump in the road’

Chief executive Jean-Sebastian Jacques comments come as the company had…

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 7, 2016 | 7:03 am

Governments turn against deep-sea mining as EV boom drives demand for metals

The deep ocean contains the largest estimated deposits of minerals on the planet, potentially worth trillions of dollars.

Bloomberg News | July 18, 2022 | 7:52 am

Feeding copper to microbes may help curb GHG emissions

Copper is key to avoiding the production of nitrous oxide, the third most potent greenhouse gas.

Staff Writer | July 18, 2022 | 5:05 am

Barrick close to final deal with Pakistan on $7bn copper project

Teams from Barrick and Pakistan are currently finalizing a framework deal to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 18, 2022 | 4:00 am

BHP may reconsider investments in Chile if tax hikes go forward

BHP said in a statement that higher taxes would make Chile more expensive than other top mining jurisdictions like Australia, Canada and Peru.

Reuters | July 17, 2022 | 10:42 am

CMOC’s Congo mine suspends copper and cobalt exports

MOC's Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine has suspended all exports.

Reuters | July 17, 2022 | 10:34 am

Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals

The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | July 17, 2022 | 7:31 am

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Copper price boost as Chinese imports rebound

Nevsun off to the races after eye-popping Serbia assays

Win for Barrick’s giant South America gold project

Capital allocation: Canadian miners’ top priority for 2017

Rio Tinto says halt of copper shipments from Oyu Tolgoi ‘a bump in the road’

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Governments turn against deep-sea mining as EV boom drives demand for metals

Feeding copper to microbes may help curb GHG emissions

Barrick close to final deal with Pakistan on $7bn copper project

BHP may reconsider investments in Chile if tax hikes go forward

CMOC’s Congo mine suspends copper and cobalt exports

Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals

LME delays by seven weeks requirement for OTC reporting

CanAlaska discovers new uranium zone at West McArthur project in Saskatchewan, stock surges

Column: China’s sluggish commodity imports set to improve, but risks abound